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This season it occurred in the Hickling Fens. This species seem 
decidedly on the increase, which is the more interesting, as it is 
abundantly distinct both in form and life history, and until a year 
or two ago was unknown, save in Norfolk. It is now known to 
occur sparingly in the Fens of Belgium. — F. D. Wheeler, LL.D. 
Molorchub minor. — Captured at Narborough, June 4th, 1900. 
A Longicorn Beetle not previously recorded from Norfolk. — 
H. J. Thouless. 
Notes on Eotifera, etc., from Neighbourhood of Yarmouth. 
During July and August I made almost daily visits to the ditches, 
etc., within a radius of five miles of Yarmouth, and occasional runs 
to Ormesby Broad. In those on the west side of Caister Road, 
and very close to Yarmouth, I found the water very brackish 
and microscopic life plentiful. Amongst numerous specimens 
taken from theso ditches were : Brachionus pula, B. millleri, 
B. dorcus, Dinocharis, Diascliiza, Euchlanis, Salpina, Anurea 
cochlear is, and other species. 
Ditches on east side (fresh) : — Floscularia onicita, Pterodino, 
Notommata, Melicerta, &c. 
Ditches at Caister : — Hydatina sent a (very profuse). 
Ormesby Broad : —Asplanchna bnghtwellii, Conochi l us vo/vox, 
Eretmia (?), Northolca, longispina, N. scapha, Polyarthru plat ypt era, 
Pompholyx sulcata, Synchceta pectinata, S. tremula, Triarthra 
hreciseta, Ac. 
Having made a special search for Volvox globator all the summer, 
I had almost given up in despair, when one morning, at the begin- 
ning of August, I found it in good condition, and in fair quantity 
in a ditch running from Caister Road to the North Denes. Next 
day I found it in larger numbers in another ditch, having no drainage 
or otherwise connected with the aforesaid ditch, the ditch in question 
being parallel with the Caister Road, but found none in the adjoin- 
ing ditch. Shortly after I found it again on the Southtown marshes 
in three distinct ditches, each apparently separate from the other. 
In two ditches it was but sparsely found, but in the third it 
swarmed almost sufficiently to colour the water. I used the bottle- 
net in all cases, and found it work splendidly. With regard to 
the larger specimens of pond-life, I found everything from Dytiscus 
marginalis down to various species of the red-water mite. 
